Marlon G. OmpocLibrary DepartmentCagayan de Oro CollegeCarmen, Cagayan de Oro City9000 PhilippinesTel Nos. +63 (085) 8583881,

8585867 to 69

http://www.cocpen.edu.ph/

Scientific and Technological Information Management in Universities and Libraries, Active Training Environment :

International Training Program, Year 2008

“Very great life-enriching training grant being with people from some other countries in different continents on the globe. Total transformation of my new life’s professional journey began here.”

Contents of STIMULATE 8 Training:Librarians’ roles as carriers

of scientific information in this digital age are introduced to learn the following:

Webpage DesignCitation AnalysisStatistics for Effective Library & Info. Service ManagementLibrary visitsthe WWWBuilding Library from scratchCopyrightGreenstone and CDS-ISIS Family

Provision of the laptop pc’s for the participants

Clear communication between the participants and the Secretariat (Alexander Coppens)

The provision of free train tickets for library visits

Program Organization Strong points:

Introduction to the management and the technical aspects of electronic databases

Library visits

Webpage creation

Citation analysis

Best Components of the Training:

Not informing the participants regarding the cost of living in Belgium (particularly the prices of food) prior to our

arrival since allowance was not released the time the participants arrived.

Program Organization Weak Point:

No comment. I want more lessons in digital librarianship.

Academic contents: weak points:

Developing library webpageInternet access for research in the library and maximization on

the use of free electronic databases, linking into the library’s webpageGive emphasis for training library staff on information literacy in

cyberspaceDigitization of Special Collection (Theses and Dissertations)

using the Greenstone software

Major recommendations to my home institute: